Learning diary › Year 2025 › July, 2025 › 2025-07-09 [2025-07-09]

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- Magic .env files built for sharing: Human-first, AI-friendly
    - I might wish to use it to render `.env`, where secrects will be managed by `pass`
        - Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager
        - placing password managere related content here for now #pass
            - Dropbox Passwords discontinuation (on HN)
    - or better, adopt `varlock run` approach instead of using `just`, `mise`, or `docker-compose` to read from `.env` files, but it's a longer journey
- #selfhost
    - Monitoring my Homelab, Simply
        - ntfy.sh for paging
        - Cron Job Monitoring - Healthchecks.io as a dead man’s switch (monitor 20 cron jobs for free)
            - two dead man switches: 5m & 2h
    - The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
    - AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
- Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using
    - reminds me of `strace` days, added `just trace` tasks as a note
- Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
    - I need to keep notes on models I tried in garden
- MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive
    - also as a CLI
    - requires donation to access the JSON API
- Clew
    - a self-hostable search engine that focus on writing by independent creators
    - discusses various search techniques in its blog posts
    - tried, not great search result